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Deuteronomy 14:4–20

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4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,* 5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 6Any animal that divides the hoof and has the hoof cleft in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 7Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger because they chew the cud but do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you. 8And the pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.*

9“Of all that live in water you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.* 10And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11“You may eat any clean birds. 12But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,* 13the buzzard, the kite of any kind; 14every raven of any kind; 15the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; 16the little owl and the great owl, the water hen 17and the desert owl,g the carrion vulture and the cormorant, 18the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.h 19And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.* 20You may eat any clean winged creature.

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Footnotes

  1. gOr pelican
  2. hIdentification of several of the birds in 14:12–18 is uncertain

Cross references

  1. *Lev 11:2–45; Acts 10:14
  2. *Lev 11:26, 27
  3. *Lev 11:9
  4. *Lev 11:13
  5. *Lev 11:20